HD refuses to boot

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Reaper00702

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Hi. I have a computer that has XP installed on it, but it won't boot to it. The computer passes POST but when it updates the DMI pool, it stops soon after and just goes to a black screen. When I tried to reinstall XP on it, the PC goes thru the DOS installation, but when it gets ready to go to the GUI, it just boots back to the CD and goes thru DOS again. I've ran a few diagnostic programs and all of the hardware passes, but I'm thinking the HD might be dying. All the drives are on cable select. Any ideas?
 
Cable Select can't always be trusted. Also you might try it with another hard drive if you have one. Just to see if you get the same problem.
 
Yeah, we've tried several hard drives, several different drive configurations (master, slave, etc), and still nothing.
 
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